Monday, March 02, 2009

Plenty of reasons why Kwesi Millington is the receiver of the Taser-Nazi of the Week nomination.

The most obvious ones:

1. "A bulletproof vest, handgun, baton and pepper spray were not enough to quell the fear RCMP Constable Kwesi Millington says he felt when confronted by Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski [who was holding a stapler] during a fatal October 2007 incident at Vancouver airport."

2.Without any warning Constable Kwesi Millington fired the taser at Robert Dziekanski, who, according to a scared Kwesi Millington, was making a threating gesture with a stapler toward one of the other three officers.

3. As a reaction to this "fluid" situation Kwesi did not taser Dziekanski once, not twice, no, Kwesi tasered "the subject" another four times AFTER it had fallen down on the floor from the excruciating pain from the first taser deployment.

8 comments:

How is that? I don't think race has much (if any) to do with Kwesi's behaviour.

Trigger happy? Yes!The wrong tool given the circumstances? Sure! Irresponsible use of force? Of course!

The abusive use of force combined with inaction to keep Dziekanski alive (RCMP officers refused to remove the hand-cuffs, they neglected to use CPR, and they neglected to inform the ambulance health unit about his deteriorating condition) should mount to a criminal offence.

talking about racism... it's Dziekanski who is the victim here.. That is so pathetic, that he thought someone could survive after being tased 5 times in a row !!! What a pathetic beast !!! Let's do the same to him at least once and let him know how it feels !!!!